Petra Palić
Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb. She earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, where she defended her dissertation in 2018 titled Modeling the Transmission of Volatility and the Spread of Contagion Across Financial Markets.
She also completed a master's degree in Social Policy at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, obtaining the academic title of Master of Social Policy.
She was employed from 2015 to 2019 as a research and teaching assistant on a project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (Economic, Statistical and Political Aspects of the Government Bond Market – SOBOM) at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, where she still collaborates as an external associate. Since 2016, she has also been an external associate at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Macroeconomics, monetary policy, international finance, social policy, fiscal policy, circular economy and sustainable development, behavioral economics
COURSES:
Introduction to Economics
Fundamentals of Economics for Law Students
Fundamentals of Microeconomics
Fundamentals of Macroeconomics
Public Policies II: Social Policy
Public Choice Theory
Society and Corruption
Industrial Sectors in the Republic of Croatia
Innovation Management and Artificial Intelligence
PROJECTS:
2024 – BrAIn – Application of Artificial Intelligence-Based Digital Technologies in Education, project associate
2024 – MC member in COST Action CA23104 Mainstreaming Water Reuse into the Circular Economy Paradigm (Water4Reuse)
2024 – associate in COST Action CA21103 Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment (CircularB)
2023 – MC member in COST Action CA21149 ACRYRED
2023 – MC member in COST Action CA20128 Promoting Innovation of Fermented Foods (PIMENTO)
2023 – associate on the project Demography in Focus: Researching Local and Regional Perspectives, Ministry of Demography and Emigration
2020–2022 – associate in COST Action Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance – Towards a Transparent Financial Industry
2020–2022 – associate in the research project Cro Laudato Si
2015–2017 – Economic, Statistical and Political Aspects of the Government Bond Market (SOBOM), Croatian Science Foundation, research assistant
